Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:19:48 EST From: ABAMFICI@aol.com To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: single key shutdown | pulling the plug ideas... Message-ID: <baed3871.34f38d2c@aol.com>
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I'm just a sneaky little Linux user that started last month who's intrested in the whole FreeBSD idea, so if some of the stuff I say makes no sence whatsoever, please forgive me. I also deleted the original e-mail concerning this issue so I forget _all_ the details, but anyway. If you go out and invest less then $100 (US) or so on an AnyKey® keyboard, or anyother programable keyboard for that matter, you can program a macro that will preform a multi-key operation with just one key. For example, you can program that nasty and useless win95 key to execute the ctrl+alt+del sequence. You could also have it type out 'shutdown' (or whatever FreeBSD uses to shutdown) followed by a hard return. As for the matter of pulling the plug, well, this is a little sneaky and I don't know if it's what you had in mind. Just today while watching the news and eating breakfast I saw a commerical for a new powerstrip from APC. The beauty of this little thing is that is has a built in battery. I assume it won't last longer then 10 minutes, but the commercial didn't really say. It would appear logical to whoever sees you pulling a plug, to yank out the main source if you will, i.e. the plug coming out of the wall. The idea of taking out each individual plug (printer, monitor, comptuer, etc.) from the powerstrip is well, stupid. :) A small batter pack in the strip wouldn't necessarly be noticed, but I'm sure a large backup power box would which defeats the purpose of your demonstration if I recall correctly. Well I hope I've helped you out in some form. Good luck. ~Kevin :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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